Connie,I didn't go to restaurants alone for years and years because of my anxiety.

I used to feel guilty at grocery stores, as well.

Dunno when that stopped.

I used to have retail anxiety that required me to buy something, however small, no matter what store I walked into. As if I didn't deserve to look and leave.

Not sure when that stopped.

I have skipped. Kind of a lot. Hope y'all surviving snowpocalypse.

Oh, and this is great: [link]

Now, if y'all excuse me, I have a Sunday to beat down and vikingzised. What does not kill me, only makes me stronger... or a zombie.

I adore The Fat Nutritionist.

I continually find it perplexing that we go to great lengths to teach children about historical examples of successful and righteous civil disobedience and then are shocked when they use the tactic.

I continually find it perplexing that we go to great lengths to teach children about historical examples of successful and righteous civil disobedience and then are shocked when they use the tactic.

When I was in ninth grade, a bunch of us tried having a sit-in to protest a new rule that we had to be out of the freshman hallway within ten minutes after the bell. (There had been some vandalism issues, and everybody knew who had done it, but he wouldn't admit it, so the school decided to punish all of us.) But the bunch of us who stayed after we were supposed to go were all "good kids," so the teachers just kind of laughed at us and let us stay as long as we wanted.

I'm with you, Debet. That kind of punishment is ridiculously draconian.

Kate, I'm on Cipro 3x a week for ... well, a month to begin with. And a huge amount of vitamins and probiotics. So, I've got Epstein-Barr, Lyme's, AND cat-scratch fever.

Yikes, Jilli, I remembered you were being tested for all three, but didn't realize they had actually diagnosed you with all of them! I'm so sorry.

They haven't put me on Cipro yet; maybe that will be the next one? I'm getting more and more convinced that the infection never really went away entirely, and has now started to ramp up again. Ugh, do not want.

I'm not sure I get what the big issues is with tardy slips though.

Yeah, I agree that the punishment seems way, way too harsh, but I'm also a little confused about the point of the demonstration. They don't think they should have to get tardy slips? ...Why? Are they arguing that there shouldn't be any consequences for being tardy? Or was the intention just to create disruption?

I think the issue was that when tardy, every student has to go to the cafeteria where there is a special "tardy table" to get marked up for being tardy. Instead of going to class and having the teacher note it, the student ends up being even later by having to divert through the cafeteria (not close to the classrooms at this particular school). I *think*, but am not sure. That's what would irk me!

eta: which reminds me of a construction shop where i once worked, where if you were late you had to bring donuts. So if you were running 2 minutes late, and stopped to buy donuts, you would thus be more like 15 minutes late. Some guys would preemptively stop for donuts if they thought they might be late, thus making them considerably more late. We ate a lot of donuts there.

Kate, I'm on Cipro 3x a week for ... well, a month to begin with. And a huge amount of vitamins and probiotics. So, I've got Epstein-Barr, Lyme's, AND cat-scratch fever.

They haven't put me on Cipro yet; maybe that will be the next one?

You guys, PLEASE keep an eye on your joints/tendons if you're taking Cipro (also Avelox and Levaquin). It can cause severe joint/tendon damage (like tendons rupturing and/or snapping), often irreparable.

I'm not saying don't take it; I'm just saying, IF you have joint/tendon pain, tell your doctor immediately. There's always other antibiotics that don't have the side effect of rupturing your tendons.

YMMV.